With her first birth, Nicole leaned on her support team of a Doula and midwives to assist during her induction at 41 weeks. Though this did not align with the spontaneous labor and unmedicated/limited intervention birth she hoped for, she found it to be a peaceful and empowering experience. During her pregnancy, she was misdiagnosed with fluid in her fallopian tube which resulted in emergency unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy surgery to remove a 10.7 cm ovary cyst that torsed 5x.
Nicole was surprised when she quickly became pregnant with her second child. She enlisted the same team of doulas and midwives and once again hoped for spontaneous labor and unmedicated hospital birth. Her second entered the world after a quick 7-hour labor, just 5 minutes after her water broke.
Nikki Rogers Stroman Bio
Nikki lives in Philadelphia with her husband, EJ and two children, Hendrix (2 years) and Harlow (11 months), and two dogs, Remi and Stache. Nicole works full-time in marketing for a large bank but spends her spare time creating fun and creative play spaces for her children, focusing on sensory play. Connect with her on instagram @Lovegrow_Sensory
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